Rare near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa may have been created several million years ago when something slammed into the moon and ...

Less than a decade after discovering a near-Earth asteroid with lunar origins, an international group of scientists says they ...

Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech that could potentially stave ...

The path of an asteroid ... Earth as our Moon’s orbit. Though some consider a collision with an asteroid more likely and more ...

The asteroid is slated to be a target for the Chinese mission Tianwen-2, which will bring a sample from the asteroid back to ...

Earth’s “second moon”—as asteroid called Kamo’oalewa—appears to have come from the moon itself. Scientists have concluded ...

A 2,000-foot asteroid is set to pass by earth Monday morning and if you don't catch it now, you'll have to wait more than a year to see it again. But you are going to need a telescope to see the ...

(CNN) — An unusual asteroid traveling near Earth is thought to be a chunk of the moon ... Measuring between 150 and 190 feet (46 and 58 meters) in diameter, Kamo’oalewa is about half the size of the ...

Image: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University For nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid ... orbit as Earth’s. Previous research suggested that Kamo’oalewa may have originated from the Moon ...

scientists suggest that asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa, which shares its orbit with Earth, might actually be a fragment from the moon. This hypothesis is grounded in the discovery that Kamo'oalewa's ...